A middle-aged man wearing a tailcoat appeared in an instant.
He had a pencil mustache and wore white gloves on both hands, looking very much like an English butler.
He bowed slightly to the doctor in a gentlemanly salute.
"Good morning, sir! How may I help you?"
[Sequence 077 – Butler] [Containment class: S] [Target abilities: financial management, administration, assassination] [Containment requirements: Keep away from other Contained Anomalies to avoid contamination or exploitation!] [Combat capability: fighting him will give you a headache!] [PS: as a qualified butler, Butler will carry out every command his master gives!] [PS: Butler is an illusory existence, and the bell is his true body. As long as the bell remains, Butler will never truly die!]
The doctor instructed Butler.
"Butler! I need you to kill the boy inside!"
Butler bowed slightly.
"At your service!"
The door opened.
Lu Xiao looked at the strange middle-aged man and twitched his nose.
"The smell of an anomaly!"
As he spoke, a trail of tears ran from the corner of his mouth.
With that, he raised his hand and emptied the pistol's magazine.
A series of gunshots rang out.
Butler stood where he was, completely unharmed.
He tugged at his white gloves and said softly.
"Sir, conventional firearms cannot harm me!"
Lu Xiao casually tossed away the gun in his hand and grinned.
"That's a real shame!"
The doctor stared at the surveillance feed, his monocle reflecting a faint glimmer.
"To be precise, no conventional physical methods can harm Butler!"
On the screen, Lu Xiao rolled his neck.
An aura invisible to the naked eye began radiating from him.
The oppressive force of a higher being descended on Butler.
Butler's body sank slightly, but that was all.
Fortunately, Lu Xiao had never expected to subdue Butler so easily.
This method worked every time against that food, but against a true anomaly, it had little effect.
Then Lu Xiao dropped to the floor, twisting his body into a bizarre posture.
Like a lizard.
This was a movement technique Lu Xiao had learned from the lizardman.
It allowed him to crawl quickly while also evading some attacks coming from the front.
Butler waved a hand, and several knives and forks shot toward the crawling Lu Xiao like throwing knives.
But Lu Xiao was as slippery as a loach, evading every attack.
He also closed in on Butler at tremendous speed.
Butler lowered his stance and whipped a kick at Lu Xiao's head.
Lu Xiao reached out with both hands and caught Butler's leg.
A series of bone-cracking sounds rang out.
Lu Xiao twisted Butler's leg clean off.
The sight left everyone watching deeply shocked.
"How did he do that? He could hurt S077-Butler with just his bare hands?"
The staff could not understand it at all and turned their gazes toward the doctor.
The doctor adjusted his monocle.
"It should be the curse he was subjected to. It allows his physical body to harm Weird Life!"
"In other words, that curse transformed him into a life-form similar to an anomaly!"
His eyes lit up.
"This is an incredible discovery!"
In an instant, many more ideas surfaced in his mind.
If the Prison Warden's soldiers could also acquire this curse, they would no longer be so helpless against anomalies!
That was the doctor's first thought.
But he immediately discarded the idea.
After all, the consequences of this curse were still unknown.
Attention returned to the battlefield.
Lu Xiao had already snapped off Butler's other leg.
Only Butler's upper body remained now.
But no emotion could be seen on his face.
His pencil mustache trembled slightly, and countless knives and forks appeared out of thin air, shooting toward Lu Xiao.
Yet to Lu Xiao, these were child's play.
He grinned.
"Enough, enough! That's more than enough cutlery!"
By now, he was somewhat impatient to taste this anomaly.
The last time he had tasted an anomaly, it had been a portion the Chainsaw Uncle had shared with him.
Just one bite had left him unable to get enough of that flavor.
It was not actually that Lu Xiao had perverse tastes.
Although many Weird Life forms were humanoid, they had nothing whatsoever to do with humans.
They were manifestations of a higher-dimensional power.
Of course, this also had to do with the curse inside him, though he himself did not know that.
The doctor shook the bell in his hand.
In an instant, Butler disappeared.
Seeing the meal almost in his mouth fly away, Lu Xiao froze.
He looked up and glanced around, finding no trace of him.
He squatted on the floor in frustration.
"Why did he just disappear like that?"
"Why did I waste so much breath on him? I should've just bitten him!"
"I'm so mad!"
The doctor put the bell back into a small lead box and handed it to a staff member beside him.
"The target's combat capability is provisionally rated at level 1!"
Level 1 was already a very high rating.
Taking into account that firearms could hurt Lu Xiao, he could otherwise have been classified directly as Supernatural Weird Life.
Supernatural Weird Life are immune to over ninety percent of modern weaponry.
Only a few types of large-scale modern weapons could harm them.
Soon, the door opened, and Lu Xiao walked out.
The moment he saw the doctor, he realized that the doctor was probably behind it.
He bared his teeth at the doctor.
"Doctor! Where did that anomaly just go?"
The doctor adjusted his monocle.
"Oh, him! I can't let you eat him! Otherwise, it won't pass review!"
Lu Xiao: "..."
"By the way! How did you hurt him?"
The doctor voiced his question.
In previous experiments, conventional physical methods had been almost completely unable to harm S077.
Yet Lu Xiao could hurt Butler with his bare hands.
Lu Xiao scratched his head and said in some confusion.
"Just like that!"
He was not lying about that. After all, every move he made was so plain and simple.
Hearing Lu Xiao's answer, the doctor fell into thought.
"The experiment is over. You can return to your room!"
After arranging for the staff to escort Lu Xiao back, the doctor went to the laboratory.
He took out the container holding Lu Xiao's flesh and blood.
He removed the piece of flesh, then casually picked up a pen and got some of Lu Xiao's blood on it.
He had the staff bring S077 over again.
The bell rang, and Butler appeared out of thin air in his tailcoat.
"Good morning, sir! How may I help you?"
Holding the pen, the doctor said softly.
"Help me with a little experiment!"
Butler bowed slightly.
"At your service!"
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